Film festival focuses on Osaka

Mar 15, 2013

Film festival focuses on Osaka

by Tomohiro Osaki

Of all the films the late actress Isuzu Yamada starred in, none of them better symbolized the vicissitudes of her real life than the 1936 “Naniwa Ereji (Naniwa Elegy).” Yamada, who died last year at the age of 95, went through at least three ...

Fifth Okinawa fest celebrates community films

Mar 1, 2013

Fifth Okinawa fest celebrates community films

by Mark Schilling

Since its start in 2009, the Okinawa International Movie Festival has been more than its name implies. It has the usual competition sections: one called Laugh for comedies and another called Peace for dramas, though not all the films fit neatly into these two ...

Feb 4, 2013

Berlin film fest helping out with Sendai event

The Berlin International Film Festival will support a movie festival to be held in earthquake- and tsunami-hit Sendai in March, Dieter Kosslick, director of the world-renowned Berlinale, said. The local festival, named “Berlinale in Sendai,” is being organized by a group of the city’s ...